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(May 30, 2007) Back to School CoB Teaching Quality According to pickaprof.com The recent report entitled .Best and Worst: . . .. has received a good deal of interest from readers of USMNEWS.NET. This report follows up on that report by looking at the teaching quality of CoB faculty based on the data available at www.pickaprof.com.

(May 30, 2007) Rock, Paper, Scissors -- Rock! How Hiring (and Firing) in the EFIB has Gone off of the Rails Recently, a USMNEWS.NET feature item indicated that a report on hiring in the EFIB was forthcoming. That report has since morphed into a series, out of which this is Part II. We pick up where we concluded issue I, discussing the chaotic human resources situation on the economics side of the EFIB since EFIB Chair George Carter (see below) re-assumed the reigns of the department in August of 2005.

(May 31, 2007) Was Green Right? One Day Later, and Carter’s IHL Commissioner Claim Looks More Like “Fraud” Yesterday’s (30-May-07) report on EFIB Chair George Carter’s claim to have been the Interim Commissioner of the IHL (in 1987) contained an interesting dialogue between economists Trellis Green and Charles Sawyer. Green’s take on Carter’s claim was that the it represented (resume) fraud, while Sawyer offered the reduced charge of (resume) “puffery” as a counter to Green. Neither claim is complimentary of Carter, and the points-of-view from one (Green) to the other (Sawyer) are about as widely spaced as possible. Green had to file a lawsuit against Carter (in 1994) in order to get promoted to associate professor, a case Green ultimately won out of court in 1997, while Sawyer has been a Carter apologist/sympathizer throughout both of Carter’s terms as EIB/EFIB chair (i.e., 1989-1997, and 2005-present).

(June 7, 2007) CoB Mystic How the “Associate Chair” Position Works in the CoB In late January of 2007, USMNEWS.NET ran an interesting column in the 31st and Pearl series entitled “Are You in Good Hands?” The columnist who penned that commentary, which is inserted below, pointed out that a few CoB faculty are serving certain departmental chairs in a quasi-administrative capacity – a capacity the columnist referred to as “Associate Chair.”

(June 10, 2007) “Hurtful Language” As most of you know, I am not part of the Economics, Finance and International Business Department (EFIB) of USM’s CoB. I am a professor in the School of Accountancy and Information Systems. Therefore, I had not heard the prepared speech Dr. Carter gave his colleagues in support of subverting a legitimate faculty governance vote. However, I did read Dr. Carter’s report of that meeting. Dr. Carter claims that words used in a usmpride.com report entitled “45 Minutes” justified his decision to nullify duly elected governance in EFIB because he feared the language on this board was “uncomplimentary, derisive, or hurtful”. He wanted to silence his faculty.